It's the day before Valentine's Day, and I'm in town with Cana being dragged by the arm. I struggle trying to keep up with her long strides, tripping but catching myself barely.

"Cana wait! Can you please let go, I won't run away anymore." I pleaded.

"No! I'm not letting you slip away like last time. I'm tired of looking at you mope around, your gonna do something about this, or I'm gonna make you do it if I have to." Cana had a firm tone in her voice, which startled me a bit. She always seemed like she never cared about anything. All she ever does in Fairy Tail is drink barrels of beer all day.

I've been depressed for the past week. Valentine's day was approaching and I've been so worried about it that I've been neglecting taking up jobs. Everyone noticed that I have been down lately, but Cana was the first to notice what I have been feeling. As long as I can remember I've been in love with Natsu. I'm not sure when it happened but ever since, I chose to conceal my feelings. I was really scared that If I would reveal these feelings our relationship that we already had would change. I didnt want that. I loved our friendship I wouldn't know what to do if it would began to go bad if I told him.

Cana and I arrived at our place that we stopped at was a small store in the middle of town. A lot of people we're entering and exiting, holding cute little pink bags filled with whatever items they were contented with. I noticed on the window of the shop there was a poster and it said "50% off all chocolate candy's" and in smaller letters "ends the day after Valentine's day". In the back of my mind I knew why we came here, but acting like I didn't I asked her."Uh, Cana...why are we here?"

Cana placed her hands on her hips looking down on me with her prominent gaze. "You know very well why we're here!" She then pointed at the shop "I want you to get over this phase of yours, you're going to give Natsu chocolates for Valentine's day."

She then grabbed my hand again, pulling me into the store. I wanted to struggle, but I didn't want to cause a scene so I just let her do as she pleased. We went around the store looking at candies and sweets. The store had wooden shelves on the walls. Different kinds of candies lined up next to each other on top of the shelves. There were little wooden stools that displayed special limited time boxed chocolates. I loved chocolate so everything just looked so mouth watering to me. I wanted to buy out the entire store, but I only had a little bit of money left for food since I haven't been doing jobs. I can't waste it on sweets.

Without realizing Cana had let go of my hand and disappeared. "Huh? Where did she go?" I thought. I eradicated my window shopping and went to look for her. There were a lot of people in the store, but since Cana was kind of tall I was able to spot her with her wavy long brown hair. I called out her name "Cana." She was at the front counter. As she turned around I saw her holding a pink bag. Walking up to her I pointed at the bag and asked "Eh? What did you buy?"

She lifted the bag a bit then said "It's chocolates, they're for Natsu and you're going to give them to him."

"What? But I can't, what….what if he refuses them."

Cana scrunched her eyebrows. "Lucy, knowing Natsu if you give any type of food he would be willing to accept it."

"But this is different. I would be telling him my feelings if I was going to give it to him."

"Lucy, you have to understand that this is now or never. Natsu isn't going to be there all the time like he is now. Someday there's going to be another girl to snatch him away from you, and then what are you going to do?" Cana looked at me with a face of concern. "Look I understand that this is a really difficult thing to do, but looking at you depressed all the time makes me this situation is so bothersome for you, then you need to attack it head on. Don't run away from it any longer okay."

I looked at the ground for a moment and looked back into Cana's eyes. I could feel her feelings for me. I've been running away from my feelings for so long now that I've became a coward and can't face the current situation. As a Fairy Tail member that's something I can't accept doing. I nodded my head to Cana and smiled.

"Thank you, you helped me understand what I have been doing wrong for a while now. I understand now that I cant keep on running away anymore from my feelings. Even if he rejects me I bet that we could still be friends. Thanks Cana."

I went in to give her a hug. She hugged me back patting me on my back. "Glad I was able to help you realize it. Now come on lets go back to Fairy Tail. I haven't had a beer in over an hour and I think I'm about to go crazy from being deprived of my liquor." We both laughed and giggled walking back to the guild together.

That night I ran myself a hot bath. I added a bath bomb to make the bath more relaxing. I applied a mask on my face. My pours fell exfoliated and fresh. It also smelled of mint which I absolutely loved. Sitting in the tub, the warmness of the bath relaxed my muscles, it was really soothing. I casually have these baths to unwind from a busy day of jobs, but today I did it because I wanted to clear my thoughts and think of a plan.

Confessing to someone isn't the easiest thing in the world, so I thought having a strategy would be the best thing for it. Taking a hot bath will clear my thoughts, and help me think positively on how the situation might fall out.

"I should probably think of what I should say to him." I thought to myself.

Giving Natsu chocolates would be easy since he would basically eat anything, but he would think I'm just giving him food just to give it to him. If I told him I loved him straight out I don't know if he would only take it as 'oh I love you as a friend' or just completely denai me. Which I'm really scared of happening. When I think about, what is the right way to really confess to someone? I haven't confessed to anybody neither had anyone confessed to me before. I have seen a couple people do it. But I witnessed it on accident. Like I've seen someone confess to another person in a family restaurant. That would be to embarrassing for me to do though. I hate being the center of attention in public. I sighed. "Maybe I'll ask Cana tomorrow."

I let out the water and grabbed the towel off the floor that I had ready for me. I lightly rubbed the towel on my head to get the excess water out of my hair. I then wrapped it around my body and left the bathroom. I went over to my dresser and got me out a pair of panties and bra. They were a matching set. The panties was yellow with white stripes. It had a floral lace pattern going along the top of the fabric. The bra had double padding to give extra lifting which I didn't need because my breast were already big enough. A size DD which I'm okay with, but sometimes they can really get in my way a lot. The bra was so cute and they only had it with the double padding so I just got it anyway.

I began to put on my underwear when I heard my window above my bed slide open. "Hey lucy!" I heard two voices say. I turned to see that Natsu and Happy came in through the window of my apartment. My face turned red. Natsu came in while I was still putting on my under wear. I was in the process of latching on my bra. Quickly I covered my chest and grabbed the largest thing closest to me. It was an empty vase I had sitting on top of the dresser as decoration. Without a second thought I threw it at them yelling. "GET OUT!"

Happy dodged the vase while Natsu, unfortunately, did not. The vase hit his face and landed on my apartment floor unharmed. I saw Natsu lose his balance and fall out of the window. He yelled falling and making a loud bang, when he hit the pavement. I gasped realizing that this is the second floor. I ran over to the window and looked down. Natsu was on his back, legs over his head. I heard him groan and yell from the below."What the hell was that for Lucy that hurt."

"Oh my gosh I'm sorry. Are you okay? You shouldn't have barged into my room. I was changing." I said. "Hold on a second let me finish up and then I'll let you in through the front."

I quickly began to change into my Pajamas. I brushed my hair and went over to the front door. Natsu was waiting patiently outside. He was crouched to the ground to the left of the door with his arms crossed covering his face. He looked up at me and my heart skipped a beat.

"Finally. What took you so long? You always take your time to dress up don't you Lucy?" Natsu said.

"I didn't take that long, but anyway what gave you the idea to barge into my house like that?"

Natsu stood up, he walked into my apartment and sat on my couch where Happy was. I closed the door behind me.

"Why, because I've always been going through there for the longest time. What's the point of going through the front now if I've always went through the window. Right Happy."

"Aye!" Happy responded.

When he says thing's like that I would just love to knock him upside his head. I pinched in between my eyes. "It would be nice to knock sometimes don't you think?" He always does this. Barging in without knocking first. He's done this several times to me, and it wasn't just Natsu either. I found Erza, Gray, Loke, and even Cana appear in my apartment without knocking. I can never get privacy if I really wanted it.

Just about to say something else I looked up to see that Natsu and Happy were looking inside the Valentine's Day bag that I sat on the coffee table when I came home earlier. My face turned beat red. "No don't look at it." I ran over quickly and grabbed the bag before they were able to take out its contents. "What are you doing going through other peoples stuff" I yelled.

"Eh but we were just curious of what you had in there" Natsu said.

"Well you're not allowed to look into it."

"Lucy's hiding something kinky in there." Happy said while smirking.

"No im not you stupid cat." I said. My heart was beating so fast. I didn't want him to see the chocolates that were in there. I stopped for a moment. "Eh, but why? The whole purpose of me having them in the first place it to give them to him. Am I still not confident in confessing to him. He's right in front of me I could get it over with right now." I thought to myself. I looked down at the bag and looked at Natsu. He was confused on why I was just standing there and completely stopped having the typical fit I usually have. "Natsu." I said

"Yes?"

My body temperature quickly shot up. As I looked from the bag to Natsu's oryx eye's, I could feel beads of sweat accumulating on my body. "Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god. Am I really going to do this?" I screamed inside my head. I tightly closed my eyes and tightened my grip on the bag. I could feel my heartbeat in my throat as I breathed for air. Another second went by when I finally did something that might change my life entirely. "Actually Natsu, this bag is for you." I stretched out my arms giving him the pink bag.

Natsu took it from me and smiled. "No way really what is it?" He sounded excited. When he opened the bag there was a small box. It had pink wrapping with hearts on them and a big red bow to top it off. My heart skipped a beat again. I thought it was going to jump out of my chest. I didnt know that the wrapping was going to look like that. I should have checked it first. What if he says anything before I'm able too.

I could see Happy staring at me and snickering. "Oh wow Lucy I know what this is about."

"Eh do you know something Happy?" Natsu said.

"No, its not what it looks like. No I mean..." I began to unconsciously say. Great this is getting really embarrassing and now I feel like a total idiot just standing here and nothing really happened yet. Oh forget it I'll just go for it."Natsu" I called. I looked at him with a serious face and opened my mouth. "How do you feel about me?"

For a moment there was silence I could feel the weight of gravity getting heavier for each passing second.

"Hmm, what do I think about you Lucy? Well of course I like you, you're my precious friend."

At that second my world shattered. I knew it came to this. I knew it from the beginning. Natsu was smiling. I can tell the honesty on his face. He really only sees me as a friend. I looked at my feet and I felt a warm pool of liquid forming around my eyes. Not wanting them to come out I breathed lifting my head and smiling at Natsu.

"I see you as a precious friends too." I responded. Alot of that is true, but I wanted something more. I didnt want to be just a friend. I guess I was the only one who wanted that thought. "Well Natsu, Happy, its getting late." I started pushing them to the front door.

"Eh? Lucy wait?" Natsu said.

"I'll see you guys tomorrow at the guild. Good night." I quickly closed the door behind me and locked it. I frowned I could feel the tears that I was holding in slowly slide down my face. I went over to my bed and fell into it like a block of lead. I wrapped my self into a cocoon and cried myself to sleep that night. Not caring about the lights that I had left on.

-End Chapter

I'm sorry that I haven't posted anything for a while. I've been so busy with school and work and I havnt had time to just sit down and acturally type these story's haha. Even though this is late I made this Fic for Valentines Day. I hope everyone had a lovely Valentines day, and if anyone didnt have a special someone to spend time with I hope you guys spent it with your friends or family. Next chapter will be uploaded pretty soon. Also please comment.